Summary:
In the video, he gets in depth about reality and if it is real or not. He touches on the fact that behavior is not necessarily related to reality. Someone's behavior describes psychological processes, not the world as a whole. He talks about reality existing separately from consciousness and that if we can't prove that, how can we assume it.
Atheists will only believe in the existence of god if it is empirical evidence. Empiricism is the measure of acceptable evidence but empiricism cannot justify itself. Thus, atheists that only accept empirical evidence of a god but not of reality separate from consciousness are showing favoritism.
The nature and limits of consciousness behold us from controlling what appears to us as reality. The things that have us question and doubt reality also must exist in reality. How could you use the reasons for doubting the existence of reality if you obtain those reasons from reality? To use reality to doubt reality is contradicting.
Analysis:
As he mentioned that behavior is merely psychological, I felt befuddled. In psychology, I learned that behavior is affected by both nature (biology) and nurture (environment). So, his statement didn't make much logical sense to me seeing as it's been proven that behavior is not just psychological. The outside world affects people by an abundant amount.
Citation:
(n.d.). Atheism, reality and epistemology . [Print Photo]. Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJUisM6q_DM&feature=youtube_gdata